George Gently Series 1 - BLU-RAY [2 Discs]

With the son she raised alone headed to university, coastal town restaurateur Pearl Nolan (Kerry Godliman) had time on her hands-and she chose to fill it by running a private detective agency out of the kitchen. The odd investigations she tackles in her picturesque community, and the attendant head-butting with late-of-London DCI Mike McGuire (Howard Charles), fuel this effort based on the Julie Wassmer novels. Rohann Nedd, Frances Barber, Sophia Del Pizzo co-star.6 episodes on 2 discs. 6 hrs. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.

A former Scotland Yard sleuth now tracking murders in Britain's North Country, George Gently (Tony nominee Martin Shaw) is an old-time copper in the rapidly changing 1960s. Based on Alan Hunters novels, this series has been compared to FOYLES WAR and MIDSOMER MURDERS.

Martin Shaw (Death in Holy Orders) is back as Inspector George Gently, a by-the-book cop from London now working in the North East of England. This corner of the country is just starting to experience the social changes sweeping the rest of 1960s Britain, but the former Scotland Yard detective finds that crime occurs here the same as anywhere else. In his meticulous manner, Gently examines the passions and planning that lead to murder, his methods more often than not offset by those of his cocky young sidekick, Sergeant John Bacchus (Lee Ingleby, Place of Execution). in these two feature-length mysteries, Gently and Bacchus investigate the suspicious death of an ex-informant facing a seemingly hopeless future, as well as the murder of a young woman poised on the brink of an exciting new chapter in her life.